When it comes to boosting reading comprehension, print rules over screens


According to a study, reading a text on paper promotes improved comprehension compared to digital reading. — AFP Relaxnews

Reading is something that we regularly do both on paper and on a screen. But the two are not equal in terms of how we process a text. A new study out of Spain claims that text on paper engages the reader much more than digital texts.

The authors of this work, published in the Review of Educational Research, came to this conclusion after analysing more than 25 other research studies conducted between 2000 and 2022, involving almost 470,000 participants in total. They found that reading on paper offers a number of advantages.

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